---
type: "Bill"
title: "Machine gun conversion devices prohibited"
description: "Firearms"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 116"
citation: "Alabama SB 116 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barfoot"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/191bfee9-d292-4f9b-b912-961a1764224f"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "7ab7e2f62e23eedf20d5ef03de34a58084b4c9100bc5a490b2e4194996dd5a3f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-al"]
---

# Alabama SB 116 (2025rs) — Machine gun conversion devices prohibited

Firearms

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB116-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB116-eng.pdf)
3. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 371** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/7BB382V-1.pdf)
4. **Public Safety and Homeland Security 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/RBBPAYM-1.pdf)
5. **Smitherman motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 179** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SLLJS77-1.pdf)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB116-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Barfoot — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Barfoot Motion to Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 319
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 372 `passage`
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 371
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Public Safety and Homeland Security Engrossed Substitute Offered (Public Safety and Homeland Security) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Public Safety and Homeland Security)
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House (Public Safety and Homeland Security)
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Public Safety and Homeland Security 1st Amendment (Public Safety and Homeland Security)
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Public Safety and Homeland Security)
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 180 `passage`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Smitherman motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 179
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Smitherman 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/191bfee9-d292-4f9b-b912-961a1764224f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).